Lettering in ornament; an enquiry into the decorative use of lettering, past, present, and possible (1902)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 165
ms of whichwere so commonly employed by the designers of theseventeenth and eighteenth centuries, to whom thestraight line, ever-recurrent in the upright Romanletter, was abhorrent. So entirely did they adoptthis one slanting form of letter, that it is some-times imagined that the term cypher… … I06. GLASS QUARRIES WITH MONOGRAM AND CYPHERS. T3I
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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